Books in English: The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War

From Cautious Friend to Reluctant Ally: The Soviet Union and the VietnamWar

Ilya V. Gaiduk. Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963. Cold War International History Project Series. Washington, D.C.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxi + 286 pp., ISBN 978-0-8047-4712-7.
Reviewed by Tom Nichols (U.S. Naval War College)

Published on H-Diplo (November, 2004)

Cuộc Chiến Việt Nam, Liên Bang Xô Viết và chiến tranh Việt Nam bởi TG: Ilya V. Gaiduk, link to vnthuquan.net Vietnam translation: 
http://vnthuquan.net/truyen/truyentext.aspx?tid=2qtqv3m3237nmn1n3n1n31n343tq83a3q3m3237nvn)

About the Book: 

In his first book on this subject, The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War (1996), Ilya Gaiduk harvested a great deal of fascinating data from previously closed communist archives and produced a volume on Soviet involvement in Vietnam and communist coalitional dynamics that has few if any peers in the literature. His second book, a kind of prequel to the first (which picked up the story of Vietnam near the moment of U.S. intervention) does not disappoint, and is a worthy and fascinating companion to the first. Although Confronting Vietnam is essentially a diplomatic history, it nonetheless tells a story that carries important implications for understanding the nexus of ideology and realpolitik in war.

Readers of The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War will recognize the Soviet Union of Confronting Vietnam: an ascending superpower torn between the need to improve relations with the West in Europe and the unfortunate burdens that fall to the self-declared center of a revolutionary ideological movement. When the North Vietnamese declared themselves to be engaged in a revolutionary struggle, both the USSR and China were faced with an ideologically driven requirement to aid them.

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Books in English: Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

I am reading my new acquisition: "Dirty Wars"  by Jeremy Scahill, see also Youtube film under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4Sn5u_pK0

Dirty Wars is a 2013 American documentary film, which accompanies the book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefieldby Jeremy Scahill. The film is directed by Richard Rowley, and written by Scahill and David Riker. Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, appearing regularly on The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Democracy Now!. He has also appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, BBC, al Jazeera, CNN, The NewsHour, and Bill Moyers Journal. Scahill’s work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater. In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Scahill is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East. (See more: http://dirtywars.org/jeremy-scahill)

See also youtube video: Why did the Iraq War start. Book presentation by Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersch. Iraq Confidential, the untold story of the intelligence conspiracy to undermine the UN and overthrow Saddam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLh3xJgDlk

Organiser: New York Society of Ethical Culture, the Nation Institute

https://books.google.ch/books?id=1TsBAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PR5&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q&f=false

Another interesting film on Iraq with Seymour Hersh, Jeremy Scahill, Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian in conversation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuTu2YFVBW0

and Leading to War - the Complete Film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_cciUzoLwo

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IR-One-Definition-A-Day: NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (1949)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

Signing of the NATO Treaty

NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. The former required a massive influx of aid to help the war-torn landscapes re-establish industries and produce food, and the latter required assurances against a resurgent Germany or incursions from the Soviet Union. The United States viewed an economically strong, rearmed, and integrated Europe as vital to the prevention of communist expansion across the continent. As a result, Secretary of State George Marshall proposed a program of large-scale economic aid to Europe. The resulting European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan, not only facilitated European economic integration but promoted the idea of shared interests and cooperation between the United States and Europe. Soviet refusal either to participate in the Marshall Plan or to allow its satellite states in Eastern Europe to accept the economic assistance helped to reinforce the growing division between east and west in Europe.

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Japanese Authors: Journal d'Hiroshima (6 août - 30 septembre 1945)

Original Title: Hiroshima Diary: the journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Author: Michihiko Hachiya
Translation by Warner Wells, M.D C
French Title: Journal d'Hiroshima (6 août - 30 septembre 1945)
Publisher in France: Editions Tallandier. 2011
My ref: ATA-317


About the Book: Racontée par un témoin survivant, l’explosion de la première bombe nucléaire prend effectivement toute son ampleur et tout son sens. Le docteur Hachiya écrit, au jour le jour, dans un style dépouillé et d’une poignante humanité, ce qui s’est passé dans la ville entre le matin tragique du 6 août 1945 et l’arrivée des troupes d’occupation américaines. Document vécu d’une valeur inestimable puisque l’auteur, grièvement blessé par la bombe, nous apporte le double témoignage d’une victime, et d’un médecin, occupé malgré ses blessures à soigner ses compatriotes, et à lutter contre les maladies provoquées par les radiations atomiques.

« C’est une chose de jeter un regard au fond de l’enfer, et une autre d’entendre la voix d’un damné vous en faire la description jour après jour », a écrit à propos de cet ouvrage un journal américain. On reste pétrifié d’horreur devant les scènes décrites au cours de ces pages. Mais ce journal n’est pas que cela. Par delà la description de l’explosion, de l’incendie, et du typhon qui les suivit, ce livre sobre atteint aux cimes de l’héroïsme, et nous montre une humanité reprenant conscience d’elle-même, après le cataclysme. Il est riche d’observations psychologiques et d’enseignements humains. Il réalise ce tour de force, après nous avoir conduits au coeur de l’épouvante, de nous avoir apaisé, consolé, réconcilié avec la vie. Il fallait un témoin d’une singulière qualité pour nous amener à des hauteurs où la foi et l’espérance retrouvent tous leurs droits.

La tragédie de Fukushima a ravivé le sujet du nucléaire dans les média et dans les consciences.

Reviews on this Book available under this link: http://www.amazon.fr/Journal-dHiroshima-ao%C3%BBt-30-septembre-1945/dp/284734828X

Recommended Readings:

• Le Siècle de Sang, Les vingt guerres qui ont changé le monde
  http://www.yourvietbooks.com/2015/06/french-history-books-le-siecle-de-sang.html
• Nuclearfiles.org Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/index.htm
• Academic Research by Brookings.edu : Predicting Proliferation: The History of the Future of Nuclear Weapons By Moeed Yusuf Fellow, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Boston University
  http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2009/1/nuclear-proliferation-yusuf/01_nuclear_proliferation_yusuf.pdf
• WMD Awareness: http://www.wmdawareness.org.uk/the-facts/nuclear-weapons/

Nuclear facts

• There are 16,400 nuclear weapons on Earth today, more than 20 years after the Cold War ended.
• Five states are declared as nuclear weapon zones under the Non-Proliferation Treaty: US, UK, France, Russia and China. These countries are committed to disarmament under international law. It is illegal for any other country that has signed the NPT to develop these weapons.
• Many other countries have been suspected of developing nuclear weapons including India, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and Korea.
• The US has nuclear weapons deployed across Europe for use by all NATO allies, including the UK.
• Britain has one nuclear weapon system, Trident. Trident replaced Polaris in the 1980s and consists of four submarines, each one capable of carrying 16 missiles. Each warhead on the missiles can be guided to a separate target.
• The only nuclear bombs ever to be used were by the US against Japan. In 1945 nuclear bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of people. Today Hiroshima’s peace park attracts visitors from across the world.
• Trident is more than 1,000 times powerful than the bomb that hit Hiroshima. Each warhead’s destructive power is measured in kilotons (kts). A kiloton is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT. The Hiroshima bomb was 16kts. Trident is far more deadly – each warhead is up to 100kts and there are 160 of them. That’s 16,000kts.

Key issues of the Nuclear Age:

You will find in the Key Issues section an overview of Important nuclear issues divided into five main areas that are listed below. Each of these five subsections contains articles, historical information, primary documents, and analyses of the particular topic.  Key Issues Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Energy Missile Defense Space Weapons Ethics

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French Books: Le Zéro et l'infini

Original Title: Darkness at Noon
Author: Arthur Koestler
French translation: Le Zéro et l'Infini, par Jérome Jenatton,
Publisher in France: Calmann-Lévy, 1945
My ref: ATA-320


Foreword by Author:
"Les personnages de ce livre sont imaginaires. Les circonstances historiques ayant déterminé leurs actes sont authentiques. La vie de N-S Roubachof est la synhtèse des vies de plusieurs hommes qui furent les victimes des soi-disant procès de Moscou. Plusieurs d'entre eux étaient personnellement connus de l'auteur. Ce livre est dédié à leur mémoire." (Paris, Octobre 1938 - Avril 1940)

About the Book:
Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.

During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.

A seminal work of twentieth-century literature, Darkness At Noon is a penetrating exploration of the moral danger inherent in a system that is willing to enforce its beliefs by any means necessary.

Reviews in English of this books are available under this link: (http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-at-Noon-Arthur-Koestler/dp/1416540261)

About the Author:
Born in Budapest in 1905, educated in Vienna, Arthur Koestler immersed himself in the major ideological and social conflicts of his time. A communist during the 1930s, and visitor for a time in the Soviet Union, he became disillusioned with the Party and left it in 1938. Later that year in Spain, he was captured by the Fascist forces under Franco, and sentenced to death. Released through the last-minute intervention of the British government, he went to France where, the following year, he again was arrested for his political views. Released in 1940, he went to England, where he made his home. His novels, reportage, autobiographical works, and political and cultural writings established him as an important commentator on the dilemmas of the 20th century. He died in 1983.

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French History Books: Le Siècle de Sang, les vingt guerres qui ont changé le monde

Original Title in French: Le Siècle de Sang, les vingt guerres qui ont changé le monde
(Source: http://www.pocket.fr/site/le_sicle_de_sang_1914_2014_&100&9782266254687.html)
Authors: Ed. Emmanuel Hecht / Pierre Servent
Publisher: Pocket L'express/Perrin
My ref: ATA-338

About the Book: Cet ouvrage revient sur les vingt conflits qui ont bouleversé le siècle écoulé, de 1914 ) 2014, en autant de chapitres rédigés par des historiens renommés et des grands reporters de L'Express, experts et témoins. Des combats qui ont véritablement changé la face du monde, comme les deux guerres mondiales, bien entendu, mais également celles de Corée, du Viêtnam ou du Golfe, ou l'affrontement sino-japonais et l'invasion russe en Afghanistan. Au croisement de l'Histoire et de l'actualité, ce livre permet d'apprendre le monde d'hier pour comprendre celui d'aujourd'hui.

« Pédagogique, maîtrisé, très enlevé. » Le Figaro

Table of contents: Summary of conflicts, seen by French-speaking analysts. See biodata under page 373.

Liste de ces 20 conflits, selon les récits des auteurs francophones:
1. 1ère Guerre mondiale: 1914-1918 par Jean-Yves le Naour
2. La guerre civile russe (1918-1920) par Jean-Christophe Buisson
3. La guerre civile espagnole (1936-1939) par Grégoire Kauffmann
4. La guerre sino-japonaise (1937-1945) par Jean-Louis Margolin
5. La Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1945, une brève histoire par Olivier Wieviorka
6. La guerre d'Indochine ou le crépuscule de l'Empire français (1946-1954) par Pierre Journoud
7. La guerre oubliée : Corée (1950-1953) par Ivan Cadeau
8. La guerre d'Algérie (1954-1962) par Pierre Pellissier
9. La guerre du Vietnam (1964-1975) par Pierre Journoud
10. La guerre de Six Jours (1967) à Kippour (1973) par Emmanuel Hecht
11. Les guerres du Liban (1975-1990 et 2006) par Dominique Lagarde
12. L'URSS prise au piège afghan (1979-198) par Marc Epstein
13. La guerre Iran-Irak: première guerre du Golfe (1980-1988) par Pierre Razoux
14. La guerre des Malouines (1982) par Emmanuel Hecht
15. La guerre du Golfe (1990-1991) par Dominique Lagarde
16. Yougoslavie: le cimetière des illusions (1991-2000) par Vincent Hugeux
17. La guerre en Afghanistan (2001-??) par Michel Goya
18. La guerre d'Irak: une victoire défaite (2003) par Dominique Lagarde
19. La Libye: de la tyrannie à l'anarchie (2011) par Vincent Hugeux
20. Blitzkrieg au Mali (2013) par Pierre Servent

Note: A selective chronology has been established by Alexia Eychenne (page 355-371)

Recommended Further Readings:

• J.M. Roberts, The Penguin History of Europe, Penguin Books (1996), ISBN 9780140265613, ref ATA-083
• Frederick Taylor, The Berlin Wall, Bloomsbury, (2006), ISBN 9781408802564, ref ATA-245
• Antony Beevor, The Second World War, Orion Books (2012), ISBN 9781780225647, ref ATA-244
• Emmanuel Hecht et Pierre Servent, Le Siècle de Sang, Pocket (2014), ISBN 9782266254687, ref ATA-251
• René Schwok, Suisse-Union Européenne, l'adhésion impossible, Le savoir suisse, ppur (2006), ISBN 9782880746874, ref ATA-080
• Henri Wesseling, Les empires coloniaux européens 1815-1919, Folio histoire inédit, Gallimard (2009), ISBN 9782070364503, ref ATA-074
• Benard Droz, Histoire de la décolonisation du XXè s., Hitoire, Points Seuil (2006), ISBN 9782757812174, ref ATA-075
• G.A. Chevallaz, Histoire générale de 1789 à 1918, Payot Lausanne (1990), ISBN 9782601030761, Ref ATA-125
• Chapelle, Gély, ABC du Bac, Terminales L-ES-S, Nathan (1994), ISBN 9782091803821, Ref ATA-136 
• Viotti, Kauppi, International Relations and World Politics, Security, Economy, Identity, Pearson International Edition (2009), ISBN 9780135063477, Ref ATA-131
• Karen Mingst, Essentials of International Relations, Norton (1999), ISBN 9780393972870, Ref ATA-135
• Jackson, Sorensen, Introduction to International Relations, Oxford OUP (2007), ISBN 9780199285433, Ref ATA-134
• The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History, Helicon (1998), ISBN 9781859862469
• Graham Evans, Jeffrey Newnham, Dictionary of International Relations, Penguin Reference (1998, ISBN 9780140513974, Ref ATA-084
• William Manchester, The Caged Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, 1932-1940, Cardinal (1989), ISBN 9780747403807, Ref ATA-193
• The World's Classics, Speeches and Documents on International Affairs 1918-1937, Oxford OUP (1938), Vol. I & 2, ref ATA-328/329

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IR-References_Useful References for International Relations Studies

Original Title in Vietnamese: Giáo Trình Lịch Sử Thế Giới Hiện Đại - Phần III: Việt Nam và Đông Nam Á trong xu thế hợp tác và hội nhập khu vực.
By Author : Tran Thi Vinh
Useful References: Danh sách tra cứu các thuật ngữ về Quan Hệ Quốc Tế (trang 321-328).

Note by Anh Tho:  Chúng tôi xin bổ xung phần từ vựng tương đương tiếng Anh để tiện việc tra cứu thêm (xem phần comments)

• chiến tranh lạnh: Cold War 
• Chủ nghĩa apacthai : Apartheid 
• Chủ nghĩa Gandhi : Non-violence
• Chủ nghĩa phát xít : Fascism 
• Chủ nghĩa quân phiệt: Militarism 
• Chủ nghĩa thực dân cũ: Colonialism 
• Chủ nghĩa thực dân mới: Neo-Colonialism 
• Chủ nghĩa tơ-ru-man: Truman Doctrine and Cold War
• Hội Quốc Liên: League of Nations 
• Nước đang phát triển: Developing Country 
• Quan hệ Bắc-Nam: North-South Relations 
• Quan hệ Nam-Nam: South-South Relations 
• Toàn cầu hóa: Globalisation 

Xem thêm các từ khác...*trích từ sách: The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations, Graham Evans & Jeffery Newnham, Penguin Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-140-51397-4. View our list of One-Definition-A-Day selection below with samples of translations.

• International Relations, p. 274
• International Organisations, p. 270
• Geopolitics, p.197
• Diễn đàn khu vực ASEAN (ARF): ASEAN Regional Forum, p. 35
• Hội Nhập Quốc Tế: Integration, p. 253
• Open Door, p. 402
• New World Order, p. 371
• MFN - Most Favourite Nations, p. 339
• MFS - Médecins sans Frontières, p. 319
• IMF - International Monetary Fund, p. 240
• WTO - World Trade Organisation, p. 580, French OMC
• WB - World Bank Group, p. 574
• WHO - World Health Organisation, p. 576
• GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, p. 191
• BEM - Big Emerging Markets, p. 50
• NIC - Newly Industrialised Countries, p. 372
• MNC - Multinational Corporation, p. 332
• Bretton-Woods System, p. 56
• Asian Tigers, p. 36
• Taiwan, Economic Miracle (wikipedia)
• Hongkong, One Country Two Systems (wikipedia)
• Japan, Third Largest Economy (wikipedia)
• South Korea (wikipedia)
• Singapore (wikipedia)
• First World, p. 172
• Third World, p. 533
• Fourth World, p. 182
• Pivotal States, p. 434
• Quasi-States, p. 457
• Micro-State, p. 322
• Alliance, p. 15
• Free Trade, p. 183
• Free Trade Area, p. 184
• Persona non grata, p. 434
• Francophonie, p. 182
• Amnesty International, p. 18
• Arbitration, p. 33
• Neutrality, p. 366
• Adjudication, p.5
• Act-of-War, p.3

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